History of Reiki Healing by Jyotishraj Suvrajit

 The Reiki story begins in the mid 1800s with a teacher, D. Makao Usui, searching tor the ancient healing system used by Christ,

Buddha, and all the ancient great healers. Dr. Usui, a Japanese scholar and philosopher, was educated by missionaries, became a Christian, and eventually rose to a position of eminence as head of a Christian boys school in Kyoto. While working in his dual role ol minister and principal, Dr Usui was politely questioned

by several of his senior students. They asked if he believed the Bible, literally. When Dr. Usui replhied he did, they wanted him

to demonstrate his belief by performing a miracle, one such as Jesus performed. As Dr. Usui was unable to do this, his students declared his to be an empty taith and finsufticient to bolster their own. They stated that they needed more than blind taith in order to believe. Dr. Usui was struck with the enormity of his position and

asked the young men not to lose their faith. He declared his intention to immediately resign his position and travel to a Chris

tian country ol the west, where he was sure he would learn how to perform the miracles of Jesus. He would then return to give lit-

eral proof of hís belietfs. Dr. Usui traveled to America and enroll ed in a Christian uni-

versity in Chicago to study, in depth, the Christian seriptures. His interest was in the healing miracles recorded in the scripture.

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Learning that Buddha and his early disciples had performed healings, Dr. Usui began concentrating on the Buddhist writings.

Alter seven years in America, Dr. Usul decided to return to kyoto to further his studies of the Buddhist sutras. He often roamed the countryside visiting temples and monasteries. The monks hetalked to were in agreement that Buddha healed many. But, they informed him, this practice had been dropped from Buddhism. The monks now concerned themselves only with spiritual health, leaving physical healing to the doctors. During his search Dr. Usui met a Zen abbot, who invited him live in his monastery while pursuing his studies. Dr. Usui remained with these monks and, legend has it, became a Zen monk. After studying the sutras in Japanese, he learned Chinese to see if he could get a clearer translation, since Buddhism was brought to Japan from China. He knew he was closer but had not yet found his answer. Dr. Usui decided to learn Sanskrit to be able to read the sutras in their original language. He had tound the symbols, yet he did not know how to activate them or what to do with them. Dr. Usui decided to go a few miles outside Kyoto to a moun-tain considered sacred by the monks. There he fasted and meditated in expectation of being shown he meaning of the information he had found. He discussed this with the abbot and told him that il, alter twenty-one days, he dinot return, to send some monks to collect his bones. He did not intend to return without an answer. On the next day he pulled twenty-one stones at the entrance of his cave. Every day he removed one stone to mark the passage ot the days. After twenty days ot intense meditation, nothing happened. On the tinal morning ot his quest, in the darkest hour just before dawn, Dr. Usui stood in his cave and saw a tremendous projectile of light coming straight toward him. His first response was fear and a desire to run from it, but he reconsidered and decided this might be the answer to his quest. He stood motionles, determined to allow this experience, even if it should mean his death. The ight struck his third eye, and he lost consciousness lor a period of time. As he regained consciousness he saw "millions and millions of bubbles in all the colors of the rainbow with the Reiki symbols superimposed on the bubbles. He not only saw the symbols, he was also given their meaning and the intornation on how to activate this healimg modality 1he irst Keiki attunement in the modern age was given and received. It was the psychic rediscovery of an ancient healing method. Dr. Usul named this newly awakened healing system Reiki. Rei means"universal" and Ki means "life force in Japanese. The healing system remains universal. AS Dr. Usui rushed to return to Kyoto, he stubbed his toe quite paintully Eager to put what he had learned to the test he grabbed his toe, used his newtound healing energy, and experienced an

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12/151 imstant healing This was his first validation of the truth of his vision.As he continued down the mountain, he realized he was hungry. He stopped at a roadside food stand and was served a meal by the owners granddaughter. Her face was swollen, and she was in much pain from an infected tooth. Dr. Usui asked permission to touch her cheek, and as he did, the giris pain immediately ceased, and the swelling went down. This healing proved that Reiki worked on others as easily as it had worked on him. When Dr. Usui returned to the monastery, he learmed that the

abbot was in great pain irom arthritis. As soon as Dr. Usui had bathed and dressed in clean Tobes, he vISited the aDot an relieved the abbots pain. Dr. Usui was now sure the ancient healing arts used by all great masters had been unearthed. Dr. Usui practiced and taught Reiki in Japan tor the rest ot his ite. There is now some speculation that Dr. USui first taught Reiki without using atrunements. in ne beginning ne taugnt Keiki as a long process in which the students learned Reiki as they lived

with and studied with the master. Students lived with Dr. Usui until he felt they had learned and practiced all there was to know

about Reiki. After this learning period he elevated them to masters and sent them out into the community to pertorm healings